In this file photo, a woman walks past Nigerian soldiers at a checkpoint in Gwoza, Nigeria, a town newly liberated from Boko Haram. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi, File)

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The Islamic State might be the world's most notorious terrorist organization at the moment, but a new study reveals it is not the deadliest. According to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, that grisly title belongs to Boko Haram, which was responsible for 6,644 deaths in Africa in 2014, compared to the total of 6,073 blamed on ISIS. Boko Haram is based in Nigeria but has expanded its attacks to neighboring countries, and, like ISIS, has declared a caliphate in its territory, notes the Atlantic. Perhaps most troubling of all, Boko Haram has declared allegiance with ISIS and is sometimes known as the Islamic State’s West’s Africa province, or ISWAP, reports the Independent.

It is time for the Pantywaist-in-Chief to grow a pair, and admit these are muslim terrorists that need to be annialated immediately.

iq145

Nov 19, 2015 8:49 PM CST

Oh but don't you dare call them Islamic! (They don't have the same beliefs, right?) http://www.newser.com/story/186931/stop-calling-boko-haram-an-islamist-group.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

Orion1

Nov 19, 2015 6:18 PM CST

Come on ISIS. You only needed to kill 572 more people and you could have gotten that varsity letter. Oh well , you'll have to play JV for another year.